confound
vt. 使混淆, 使狼狈, 挫败
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使混淆；挫败；讨厌；使混乱
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A confounding variable.
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To perplex or puzzle.
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To stun or amaze.
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To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
1651 (Latin edition 1642), Thomas Hobbes, De Cive (Latin title) Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society (English), Hey who lesse seriously consider the force of words, doe sometimes confound Law with Counsell, sometimes with Covenant, sometimes with Right. They confound Law with Counsell, who think, that it is the duty of Monarchs not onely to give ear to their Counsellours, but also to obey them, as though it were in vaine to take Counsell, unlesse it were also followed.
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To make something worse.
Don't confound the situation by yelling.
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To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
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To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
His actions confounded the skeptics.
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To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
1848 February 12, John Mitchel, The United Irishman, Letter to Lord Clarendon, I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.
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To damn (a mild oath).
过时Confound you!
Confound the lady!
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To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
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From Middle English confounden (“destroy, ruin, perplex”), from Anglo-Norman cunfundre and Old French confondre, from Latin cōnfundō (“to mingle, mix together”). Related to found (“to melt (metals in a foundry)”) (but not to found (“to start”), nor to find) and to fusion.
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